15:41 <Utopiah> so I think I know what thinking is
15:42 <Paola[Gtalk]> oh
15:43 <Paola[Gtalk]> you think you know? :)
15:43 <Utopiah> yes
15:43 <Paola[Gtalk]> I am thrilled!
15:44 <Utopiah> so
15:44 <Utopiah> Thinking is the process that extract information by transforming a probabilty distribution to another distribution using energy. 
15:45 <Paola[Gtalk]> probability distribution of what?
15:46 <Utopiah> events
15:46 <Paola[Gtalk]> such as?
15:47 <Utopiah> the wind will blow, that the sun will rise, this word will mean this, etc...
15:47 <Paola[Gtalk]> ok
15:47 <Utopiah> basically, anything.
15:47 <Paola[Gtalk]> explain me better the probability distribution  thing
15:47 <Paola[Gtalk]> you mean like a Gauss curve?
15:48 <Utopiah> yes except it can be way more complex
15:48 <Paola[Gtalk]> how?
15:49 <Utopiah> first it's not limited to a Gausse curve, you have an infinity of potential distributions to pick from
15:49 <Utopiah> second, the curves you think about are 2D
15:49 <Utopiah> which here is not the case
15:50 <Paola[Gtalk]> was just an example ;)
15:50 <Utopiah> you can have an N dimensional probabilty distribution
15:50 <Paola[Gtalk]> and I was not just thinking in 2D
15:50 <Utopiah> you can imagine a matrice of distributions if you prefer
15:51 <Paola[Gtalk]> ok
15:51 <Utopiah> so this is the structure that allow you to think
15:52 <Utopiah> and updating this matrice of distributions is thinking
15:52 <Utopiah> for example, if I burn myself, I will update the distribution of heat/danger and itwill probably shows a positive correlation
15:53 <Paola[Gtalk]> yes, ok
15:54 <Utopiah> the specificity of the brain though is that it has a distribution of itself and thus can look for faulty distributions and try to improve them
15:54 <Utopiah> that is the process of extracting information for the environment
15:54 <Utopiah> in science we associate it with experiments
15:54 <Utopiah> but even a baby will act in such a way.
15:55 <Paola[Gtalk]> what led you to all this reasonings?
15:55 <Utopiah> the pool being close
15:55 <Utopiah> have to go back at 7:30PM
15:55 <Paola[Gtalk]> oh :-o
15:56 <Paola[Gtalk]> why closed?
15:56 <Paola[Gtalk]> and, besides the pool?
15:57 <Utopiah> technical problem
15:59 <Utopiah> beside the pool I was just looking around at birds flying, Saint-Mauriens walking at the farmer market, etc..
15:59 <Utopiah> then wondered about strategies and cognition
16:00 <Utopiah> the risk of short-term best strategy leading to long-term worst strategy
16:00 <Utopiah> i.e. finding a local optimum but getting stuck in it
16:00 <Utopiah> a classical problem in operational research
16:01 <Utopiah> then wondered how it could be generalized
16:01 <Utopiah> and at the same time, what part of artificial intelligence was *not* based on statistical methods
16:01 <Utopiah> then I merged the 2 lines of thought
16:02 <Utopiah> thus how is statistics used in selecting strategies
16:03 <Utopiah> thus use of statistics in the thinking process
16:03 <Utopiah> thus statistics and the brain
16:03 <Utopiah> thus probability distribution and thinking
16:12 <Paola[Gtalk]> I think it makes sense
16:13 <Paola[Gtalk]> and i like this part of the local optimum that gets stuck
16:14 <Paola[Gtalk]> and
16:14 <Paola[Gtalk]> I will pay attention to the probabilities now
16:14 <Utopiah> easy ones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_probability_distributions
16:15 <Paola[Gtalk]> yes yes :)
16:15 <Paola[Gtalk]> not only those
16:15 <Paola[Gtalk]> I meant the probabilities in the thinking process